Oski the Cal bear wants YOU to have a wonderful time. Oh, and he wants you to work smart, too. Here you are already starting the second week of your ATDP class and every student I have met is still smiling, making friends, and learning, learning, learning. It is always a delight to see how […]
Read More →Paid Learning Experiment
Hi everyone! Please read the following announcement from Lauren Barth-Cohen, one of this summer’s instructors for Introducing Physics: Dear Parents & Students, My name is Lauren Barth-Cohen. I’m a doctoral student at Berkeley. We are looking to recruit high school students for a research study on student’s conceptual learning in science. For this study we […]
Read More →Tutoring is now available!
Tutoring sign-up sheets are posted on quite a few of the walls surrounding the ATDP office (3639 Tolman)! The math students are already swarming; students of writing, Psychology, Sociology, and Japanese, it’s time for you to catch up! See you all soon :)
Read More →From the Director – Week 1
At our ATDP Family Orientation a couple of weeks ago, I spoke about what it means to join the academic conversation as part of a learning community. Let’s make that our theme for the summer. We hope that your participation in the academic conversation will assist and support you as you grow into the person […]
Read More →I survived the first day of ATDP 2011 and all I got…
… was a massive boost of self-confidence, actually. To be fair, I think I scared some of my students (yes, scared students, I mean you). Parts of my lesson plan were too aggressive, and other parts could have been meatier. Also, ATDP’s database went down while I was in the middle of teaching my class. […]
Read More →Every journey is simply a series of steps
… but the first step is not always simple. Welcome to the ATDP Commons. This section of our website is the potential successor to The Virtual ATDP (TVA) as an online portal for students, instructors, and the greater ATDP community. My long term goal is to integrate all of our online resources: news, research, online […]
Read More →Community Newsletter Vol. 3
Everyone at ATDP Is Here to Learn Students, Instructional Associates, Expert Teachers, Doctoral Students and Professors At ATDP, we grow academic talent; we don’t mine for it. This includes everyone affiliated with the program. Our group begins with novice scientists aged 5 and extends upward to Secondary Division, to ATDP teachers, to doctoral students, professors, […]
Read More →Parents Come to Learn
Wednesday Explorations for Parents, New in Summer 2010 ATDP parents have long reported how much they learn each summer as their children answer, “what did you learn in class today?” Topics addressed in that day’s learning give rise to many wonderful conversations. We all take joy in seeing parents’ faces as their children explain how […]
Read More →The Research Cycle at ATDP
How Students and Teachers Teach Us About Learning Any teacher, student, administrator, or counselor involved with ATDP will tell you without hesitation that the program exists to serve students. Many of those same folks might also tell you that ATDP’s primary purpose would put it into opposition to the role of educational researchers. They might […]
Read More →Leo White: Summer’s Sociologists
SD instructor Leo White reflects on his first year at ATDP In a 1676 letter to a colleague, Isaac Newton famously wrote, “If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Indeed, Newton saw farther than most and remains one of the most renowned scientists and mathematicians of all […]
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